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Wrex hears tiny footsteps heading in his direction as he's checking out what's left of the human colony. Turning around, he catches sight of a tiny squishy human with a fringe that matches his plate coloring wielding… a shovel? Listening to the tiny human let loose a (quite frankly, terrible Wrex thinks) war cry and leaps at him brandishing it's shovel. He catches it in a gentle biotic Lift only to duck as it Throws the shovel at his head.
"Heheheh you have some spunk tiny human! Did you honestly think it would work?" He queries, raising a brow ridge. The minute stranger shakes its head. Its wide eyes, slightly erratic breathing and lower lip sticking out clue him in: the human appears to be equal parts fearful and pouting. It's a remarkably similar expression to the one Krogan youngs make when caught doing something they shouldn't be.
Looking at the human in front of him he notices that it doesn’t look like any other human he has seen before.
"Are you just tiny or young? Male or female?"
"Both and I'm a girl." She utters quietly, peeking at him through a floating red fringe.
CLANG
Wrex both feels and hears the impact of something hitting his hump and when he looks down, he sees the shovel he ducked barely a few moments ago. Still holding the little female child in the gentle Lift, he scans the tree line, catching just a glimpse of more red as another child ducks behind a tree.
Hearing more tiny footsteps, he starts to turn towards the direction of the sound only to get hit with another garden implement, this time across his shins, causing his focus on the Lift to waver and drop the little one it held. His tiny attacker rushes towards the little female, who just landed on the ground, grabbing her by the wrist and pulling her to the trees.
The attack wasn't enough to take him down, so he follows after the fleeing young ones listening to the crunch leaves and snapping of twigs. He stops when he hears them stop.
"Are you ok, Lia?" He hears one of the other two children ask. Careful of his foot placement he quietly moves forward after hearing an assenting hum. Finally getting a clear look at the children he sees that they look extremely similar to each other and comes to the conclusion that they must be clutch mates.
The first one, the one called Lia, has vibrant verdant eyes and a messy deep red fringe that went past her shoulders. He would later learn humans call the strange scarlet tangle “curly hair”. The next one, the one who got him in the shins, has the same color to their fringe which is however much shorter and just as messy, likely from dragging their hands through it. They have their back to him and seem to be checking Lia over for injuries while the last one keeps an eye on the surroundings. This one’s deep red fringe ends just above their shoulder, and their eyes a glowing violet.
Next thing he knows there's a pebble being flung at his face.
"JOHN! THE RED TURTLE MAN IS HERE WE GOTTA GO!!!", the violet eyed child screeches. The tallest one (John his brain supplies) gets Lia onto his back and the three take off faster than expected.